Quotes About Achievement

Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.

everything that is not forbidden by laws of nature is achievable, given the right knowledge.

Remember what Glenn Livingston says, "The name of the game, is to stay in the game, until you win the game." So dammit, market like crazy and start making offers. You will start winning and little victories will lead to huge pay days – you can take that to bank, literally.

The rest of the world should know who really defeated the Germans.

Another thing done, is another thing done!

I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

I think that success in life is largely a matter of luck. It has little correlation with merit, and in all fields of life there have been many people of great merit who did not succeed – Popper

There is no such thing in this world as a pure meritocracy.Nobody gets to the top without being lucky. Luck happens to the most deserving of people and some of the most undeserving.

Most ambitious people are not naturally team players. They're ruthlessly competitive individualists.

What you have actually achieved will only be clear when you take your last breath.

A total of 56 members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame have been associated with the New York Yankees at one time or another as a player, manager, or front office executive - the highest representation of any other team.

1932) That season, the Yankees scored at least one run in every game played, becoming the only team in major league history to avoid being shut out over an entire season.

Deion) Sanders made history as the first athlete to hit a home run in the major leagues and site a touchdown in the same week.

ce que l'on veut est moins important que ce que l'on peut avoir.

Pero llega un momento en que lo que queremos importa menos que lo que podemos conseguir.

Blinded by the prize, they did not see that there was a contest.

Sensing its fundamental unreality, the false self wraps itself in experience—experiences of power, pleasure and honor. Intuiting that it is but a shadow, it seeks to convince itself of its reality by equating itself with what it does and achieves.

Kingdom of Self The Kingdom of God • Ruled by self-interest • Ruled by love • Grasping • Releasing • Achievement • Gift • Effort • Consent • Independence • Interdependence • Holding • Releasing • Willful • Willing • Clenched fists and closed heart • Open hands and heart • Hard and brittle • Soft and malleable • Determination • Transformation

He never conquered polio, but he wrote a new narrative about his life that not only transformed him but won him the presidency.

The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty.

Those who work bullshit jobs are often surrounded by honor and prestige; they are respected as professionals, well paid, and treated as high achievers

Often, the only polite thing to do if one has accomplished something significant is to instead make fun of oneself.

Achievement comes to someone when he is able to do great things for himself. Success comes when he develops leaders to do great things for him. But a legacy is created only when a person puts his organization into the position to do great things without him. -John C. Maxwell, The Twenty-one Irrefutable Laws of Leadership.

Het geheim van het succes is de geheimhouding.